Language is Everything

Proud to support Young Enterprise

Language is Everything will be teaming up with The Snaith School, a specialist school in business and enterprise, for the 2009/10 academic year. The school will be running a Young Enterprise course as part of its business, administration and finance diploma.

"We're very excited about lending our support to this project," said Carol Curtis, our MD. "Snaith School is the only school in the area that is running this kind of course with private sector backing, and we're all looking forward to getting started in September."

Back the bid!

Carolyn Burgess, our chief exec, has urged local companies to back a bid to bring the football World Cup to Hull in 2018, if England is selected as the host nation. Up to 100,000 people could visit the region if the KC Stadium is chosen to host games, and the Humber region would be showcased on TV screens around the world.

"Hosting a World Cup game would be a fantastic boost for the Humber economy," said Carolyn, who is also president of the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce. "As well as bringing in thousands of visitors who would spend money in the area, it would raise our profile around the world. We are encouraging all local businesses to back the bid."

You can show your support for bringing World Cup football to the Humber by registering on the official England 2018 bid site and selecting Hull as your favourite host city.

Ten things you didn't know about Brazil

Our partners at the World Trade Centre Hull & Humber will be holding an 'Opportunities in Brazil' event on 21st September.

Download Opportunities in Brazil invite

To help get you in the mood, you can download our Portuguese 'language survival card' here. And, in the latest of our regular series, here are ten things you didn't know about Brazil.

1. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and by population.

2. The country is one of the four founding members of Mercosur, South America's biggest trade block.

3. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — better known simply as Lula — won a second term as Brazil's president in 2006.

4. The BRIC group of emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China — held their first official summit in Russia last month.

5. The 2014 football World Cup will take place in 12 host cities around Brazil.

6. Brazil is one of eight member states of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.

7. The Portuguese spoken in Brazil is slower and more measured than that spoken in Portugal.

8. There are occasional differences in vocabulary between Brazil and Portugal. For example, the word 'boy' is moço in Brazil and rapaz in Portugal; 'girl' is moça and rapariga respectively.

9. Brazil's Indian population speak more 100 different languages between them...

10. ... and the country is also home to large numbers of German, Italian and Japanese speakers.

 

Chairman's Awards: in pictures

In May we won the Chairman's Award for enhancing the economy of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The Chairman's Awards are presented by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, with nominations coming from both the public and from council employees.

Here are two pictures from the presentation ceremony at Bridlington Spa.

 

 

And here you can download a short film about us that was shown on the night (download time with a 1Mbps connection: 3 minutes).

Download Language is Everything (short film)